The Desert Music and Other Poems [Limited Edition, Signed]

New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.68. Octavo (24cm); sage green paper-covered boards and beige cloth backstrip, with printed title label mounted to spine; publisher's original paper-covered slipcase; [xii],[3],4-90,[4]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ slipcase, lightly toned and edgeworn, but sharp-cornered and perfectly sound. Lacking the original glassine dustjacket. A collection of poems Wallace wrote just before, and just after recovering from, his cerebral attack, inspired by a trip to the West visiting the desert country around El Paso, Texas. WALLACE A38b. 88071.